“The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.” PeopleGivingMoneyAdviceMore Money Author:John Cowper Powys
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.” PeopleNeedsEarthSpiritualMotherEnjoyStrangeWorshipCultCasualSpiritual Faith Author:John Cowper Powys
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.” PeopleMeanDoeBookFormCertainImaginationPersonalityReaderTerribleOrdinaryChaosInsightContactClassicVisibleSuperficialGlancesGrandeurOutlinesLuminousOrdinary LifeGreat BookDostoyevsky Author:John Cowper Powys